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Ted R. Kahn

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Retired Zoologist/Herpetologist/Environmental Consultant/Field Biologist/Artist/Author. IUCN/SSC/ASG Commission Member. Punk Rocker/Skateboarder. https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=KEd3NKQAAAAJ&hl=en https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ted-Kahn-3

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#frogfriday Ranitomeya variablis. Enjoy! 🐸

14.06.2025 02:57 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Reject Anti-Science Attacks in the Budget Bill Congress is considering cuts to crucial science-backed programs right now. Urge your legislators to uphold science and protect your priorities during the budget reconciliation process.

Reject Anti-Science Attacks in the Budget Bill secure.ucsusa.org/a/2025-rejec...

11.06.2025 15:16 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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ACB rescues salamanders in Lebanon. Not newts but we'll let that slide.

03.06.2025 08:24 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I think we all need a newt. Right? Photo credit in pic 🐍

03.06.2025 08:05 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Dropkick Murphys are standing with us on June 6 in D.C. because they know what this fight means.

They’ve always stood with working people, and this time, they’re standing with veterans, military families, and our allies.

Join us!

#UniteForVeterans app.sosha.ai/s/fqXSJhTf

31.05.2025 10:46 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
State of the World’s Amphibians – IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group

Here have more amphibian science-free downloads! www.iucn-amphibians.org/state-of-the...

11.05.2025 19:20 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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#Fieldworkfriday! Fieldwork is a branch of Natural History Science. Santos E. BazΓ³ Abreu, Elena LeΓ³n, Ted R. Kahn y Susana Pineda after lectures at Universidad Nacional Experimental β€œSimΓ³n Rodriguez” NΓΊcleo G.I.H.A. II Jornadas de ReflexiΓ³n de EducaciΓ³n Ambiental. 4th July 2007.
Estado Trujillo, VE.

09.05.2025 22:48 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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#Frogfriday! Enjoy the nominotypical Peruvian morph of Ranitomeya uakarii (Brown, Schulte, and Summers, 2006) I painted. © 2016 Ted R. Kahn. 🐸

09.05.2025 22:39 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Protest @ 16th NW & Columbia Rd NW every Wed @ Rush Hour Β· Indivisible Join Uptown Indivisible Wednesdays from 5:00-6:30PM, for a rush hour protest. Now is the time to speak up for democracy, our rights, and American values. Please bring your friends and neighbors. We ca...

Uptown Indivisible is holding a weekly protest at the intersection of 16 Street NW and Columbia Rd NW from 5pm - 6:30pm every Wednesday. Please join us! More info on Mobilize.

www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...

07.05.2025 19:22 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Happy #AmphibianWeek Melanophryniscus admirabilis from Brazil. Copyright Samuel Renner Enjoy! pub. available at www.researchgate.net/profile/Ted-...

07.05.2025 03:13 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The other day, me w/ "Winky" a dear friend of 40-yrs. 0500h at some bar in HarDCore after seeing TheBellrays and The Damned at the 9:30 Club in Washington, DC. Just being old punks in love. That is how we roll.

05.05.2025 08:01 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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#frogfriday. Science may not be pretty sometimes but it damn sure is important. Illustration from an old Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History publication-way way back in the day. Enjoy!

02.05.2025 18:01 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Hog-nosed snakes. I like 'em all.

26.04.2025 21:43 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Legend has it this salamander came from hell. We’re about to send it back. Climate disasters, human sprawl, and now Trump: This is how extinctions happen.

Examples of some of what we are dealing with here in the USA. Hopefully we'll prevail and species will recover too.

26.04.2025 10:42 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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An Amazonian hidden gem: a new metallic-colored species of Ranitomeya (Anura, Dendrobatidae) from JuruΓ‘ River basin forests, Amazonas state, Brazil The genus Ranitomeya has 16 known species, and the last of them was described 13 years ago. The forests of the JuruΓ‘ River basin are known for their enormous vertebrate diversity, despite being one of...

#frogfriday Have new poison frog published today! Enjoy!

25.04.2025 18:57 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Happy #Earthday! Another of my illustrations from long ago.

22.04.2025 20:20 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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#SciArt Scientific illustrator Alissa Eckert, after helping create this image & after 17-yrs. of service to the CDC here in the USA was fired. This is not normal; this is corruption. When we take back our country hopefully she'll get her job back. We're protesting everyday now, won't be much longer.

11.04.2025 14:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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#Frogfriday 🐍The Emerald poison frog Ameerega smaragdina was officially synonymized w/ A. petersi see French et al., 2019. I noted this being known prior to French et al. in the aposematic poison frog book we published in 2016. Enjoy a shiny moist-looking poison frog from Perú! © 2016 Ted R. Kahn.

11.04.2025 14:28 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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7.7K views Β· 173 reactions | Colombia sede regional para Latinoamerica. | Lanzamiento: Colombia nueva sede Regional de ConservaciΓ³n Internacional para LatinoamΓ©rica. Nota del Canal Capital oficial. | ... Lanzamiento: Colombia nueva sede Regional de ConservaciΓ³n Internacional para LatinoamΓ©rica. Nota del Canal Capital oficial.

#TBT my book launch in Colombia 2016 news clip. Enjoy!

11.04.2025 01:43 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Yup.

03.04.2025 21:41 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Here have an Ameerega pepperi I painted. We can always use a frog. Enjoy!

02.04.2025 16:24 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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fuck those earthworms in particular send em to the rodeo

go science! #3:

in which earthworms are vibrated into the mirror dimension using dental equipment

21.03.2025 14:41 β€” πŸ‘ 41    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 1

Please enjoy the second installment, in which doctor assman blue screened a dude out of the hiccups

20.03.2025 10:12 β€” πŸ‘ 95    πŸ” 18    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 8

Parasite?

20.03.2025 23:29 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks man! That place had never had a herpetologist survey the area and almost everything we found was unknown to science - quite a backlog of snakes, amphibians and lizards my Colombian friends are slowly dealing with. Cheers, Ted

20.03.2025 21:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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My obligatory #WorldFrogDay post. An undescribed Pristimantis sp. I found in Colombia years ago. An Andinobates cassidyhornae from the type locality in Colombia that we described in 2013 (on right).

20.03.2025 20:04 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Okay. Chill out - my advice to myself after days of protesting here in Washington, DC against the Nazis. Have a newt. Do something today to change tomorrow.

16.03.2025 09:38 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

REMEMBER! It is mail the president a postcard day. THE WHITE HOUSE, 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, NW, Washington, DC 20500. Mail them Today Saturday, 15 March "You're Fired." etc. Most folks are sending 20-50, lot's to say. No return address necessary, leave no DNA or fingerprints πŸ™‚ #resist

15.03.2025 13:03 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

REMEMBER! It is mail the president a postcard day. THE WHITE HOUSE, 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, NW, Washington, DC 20500. Mail them Today Saturday, 15 March "You're Fired." etc. Most folks are sending 20-50, lot's to say. No return address necessary, leave no DNA or fingerprints πŸ™‚ #resist

15.03.2025 13:01 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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REMEMBER! It is mail the president a postcard day. THE WHITE HOUSE, 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, NW, Washington, DC 20500. Mail today Saturday, 15 March "You're Fired." etc. Most folks are sending 20-50, lot's to say. No return address necessary, leave no DNA or fingerprints πŸ™‚ #resist
Hopping up to USPS.

15.03.2025 12:58 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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